M. von Nkosi: Lessons in Leadership

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M. von Nkosi is the principal of Liquid Studios (LS) and outgrowth of his parent company, The MXD Collaborative, Inc. founded in 1992. LS is a collective of like minded independent practitioners and intellectuals (practellectuals) operating from a “shared vision” to help communities optimize their potential. LS focuses on finding and implementing locally driven solutions (www.liquidstudios360.com).

In June of 2012 von also incorporated the Institute for Local Innovations (ILI) in Louisiana based in New Orleans (www.ili360.org). Mr. Nkosi is an architect and led the design team that created the implementation plan for the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District in Atlanta, revitalizing this once troubled neighborhood into a sustainable community.

In post Katrina New Orleans von directed $30-million of Disaster CDBG funds into a soft second housing program, funds for non-profit developers to boost housing production. In 2008 he lead a 35 person exchange – between Japanese Representative & New Orleans Leaders. In April 2009 he was a New Orleans delegate visiting Tokyo to share experience on disaster recovery. He has optimized Smart Growth Strategies for municipalities through expertise in housing, land use policy, public/private development, and strategic planning.

Von is a dedicated, accomplished leader and entrepreneur who in 2016 designed and brought the Mi Rialiti [my reality] Smartphone App to market www.mirialiti.com.

He has a strong ability to build consensus in the sharing of a high level business vision.

Lessons from the Show

von offered us many wonderful lessons on life and leadership that point us towards an authentic, happy and fulfilling life and career including:

• Not feeling that you need to solve all the problems you tackle, and allowing that they may not even be solved in your lifetime;
• If you don’t respect other people’s interests, you will get shut out;
• How important it is to focus not on leading problems to solution, but to focus on training the next generation of leaders (including mentoring) so that they can solve these problems and the problems to come.

You can contact von by email at von@mac.com or by phone at 404 909-3276 and you can find out more about him and his business at Liquid Studios or by watching this video of an impromptu TV interview.

This is episode # 143